28 July The literary calendar
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Your yën two wol slee me sodenly, I may the beautè of hem not sustene, So woundeth hit through-out my herte kene.
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- Beatrix Potter: Charles G.Y. King (1854-1937), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Malcolm Lowry: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- John Stonehouse: André Cros, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Deborah Moggach: palfest from Palestine, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Abraham Cowley: Peter Lely, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby: Alfred d'Orsay, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Mortimer Collins: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Jessie Fothergill: Warwick bros, Manchester via Helen C Black, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized